Mom crashes van with 4 small kids into pole

Updated 10:58 pm, Monday, November 26, 2012

Photo: Ana Ley, San Antonio Express-News

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A minivan went crashing into a pole on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at the intersection of Commerce Street and New Braunfels Avenue. Neither the driver nor her four young children were seriously hurt in the crash, but the impact split the utility pole and caused it to land on the street along with electrical wires.

A minivan went crashing into a pole on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at the intersection of Commerce Street and New Braunfels Avenue. Neither the driver nor her four young children were seriously hurt in the crash,

Paramedics place a 3-year-old boy inside an ambulance after he got a nosebleed during a crash on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at Commerce Street and New Braunfels Avenue. The child was not seriously hurt in the crash.

Paramedics place a 3-year-old boy inside an ambulance after he got a nosebleed during a crash on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at Commerce Street and New Braunfels Avenue. The child was not seriously hurt in the

Paramedics help a 3-year-old boy who suffered from a nosebleed after his mother crashed into a pole on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at the Commerce Street and New Braunfels Avenue. The child was not seriously hurt in the crash.

Paramedics help a 3-year-old boy who suffered from a nosebleed after his mother crashed into a pole on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at the Commerce Street and New Braunfels Avenue. The child was not seriously hurt in

A distracted mother driving a minivan carrying four small children crashed into a utility pole this morning, snapping it in half and knocking it into a busy East Side intersection.

The woman lost control of her westbound minivan about 10:40 a.m. on Commerce Street just before New Braunfels Avenue on her way to day care. She veered across the road before crashing head-on into the pole, Officer Clifford Zigmond said.

None of the children — the youngest of whom was 5 months old — was seriously hurt, including a 3-year-old boy loaded into an ambulance to treat a nosebleed.

Zigmond said the mother didn't appear to have been drinking or speeding. He said she likely was distracted by the children.

He said all of the kids were properly restrained.

“It's fortunate” the children weren't seriously hurt, Zigmond said. “It could have been a lot worse.”